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...f data and, at the same time, be less power hungry than anything else that's out there is what makes this ...rom the low-power device. "This device uses less than a microwatt," Irazoqui said. "It uses nanowatts." The Purdue researchers are planning to conduct a...

...ational spending on prescription drugs rose faster than any other segment of health care spending, the hea...in constant spending, resulting in savings of more than $6.6 million over three years. Four health plan interventions not only averted increases in prescr...

...dings (No. 3). The DHS funds will augment the more than $3 million in funding the research team has alread.... Department of Justice. Representatives from more than 20 companies and research groups, including WPI, Carnegie Mellon, Honeywell Inc., Draper Laboratorie...

...at a matchbox-size prototype device, weighing less than 3 ounces, effectively mimics the workings of the i...The device, which researchers started testing more than a year ago, consists of a head-mounted, battery-operated box containing the sensors, which are posit...

...t least 24 hours of settling time, the dye, rather than permeating the entire face, stayed in separate areas showing that individual facial compartments have boundaries between them that act like fences. These fences, which seem to be composed of fibrous tissue, allow the face to maintain its blood suppl...

...es published between 2000 and 2005, including more than 500 patients, significant and problematic differences were identified in beliefs about the presence of symptoms, the need to take medications for the rest of ones life, and race-specific treatment plans. High blood pressure is a common but serious ...

...re about mild traumatic brain injury or concussion than we have ever known, noted Dr. Lovell, including th...s that are believed to occur on a metabolic rather than an anatomic level. fMRI can determine, through measurement of cerebral blood flow and metabolic chan...

...w biomarker for heart failure may be more powerful than established measures in identifying patients at in...ry biomarkers will be superior for predicting risk than using just one. If we could harness the information these biomarkers yield to better adjust therapi...

...y found that women age 65 and older who drank more than three cups of coffee (or the equivalent in tea) pe... day had less decline over time on tests of memory than women who drank one cup or less of coffee or tea per day. The results held up even after researchers...

...more likely to be obese prior to becoming pregnant than mothers whose children are born without such defec...n of 16 birth defects were more likely to be obese than mothers of infants without birth defects: Spina bifida, a condition that occurs when part of the...

...pread. The food and beverage industries spend more than $10 billion per year to market to children in the United States, according to background information in the article. By age 2, children may already have beliefs about certain brands and 2- to -6-year-olds can recognize brands and associate them with ...

...s, prisons are more likely to get adequate funding than preschools, writes James Forman Jr., J.D., of Georgetown Law School, Washington, D.C., in an additional accompanying editorial. In our country, when we run out of prison space, we simply build more, he writes. The result is that we have the highest...

...nugget they think is from McDonald's tastes better than an identical, unbranded nugget." The degree of p...verage of 2.4 televisions in their homes, and more than half the kids had a TV in their bedrooms. About one-third of the children ate at McDonald's more tha...

...rs in areas of the brain associated with attention than it did in those without ADHD. Since levels of meth...DHD released less dopamine in response to the drug than controls. This blunted response was associated with symptoms of inattention. Exploratory analyses al...

...MI patients. LDL (bad cholesterol) should be lower than 100 mg/dL and ideally reduced to 70 mg/dL. Blood pressure should be lower than 140/90 and for those with diabetes or chronic kidney disease, a reading lower than 130/80 is recomme...

...-based counseling did not provide any more benefit than other programs that promote driving safety (Clinical Guidelines, p. 194). And most studies were done before the enactment of child safety seat legislation....

...nts born between 24 and 30 weeks and weighing less than 2 pounds develop BPD. The condition is life-threat...said. Inhaled nitric oxide is going to be safer than the corticosteroid and more effective than both therapies, he said....

...ecause of the diseases it's associated with rather than because of its benefits," says Dr. Lynn. "However, researchers are also finding situations in which amyloid is beneficial, such as in long-term memory and synapse maintenance in the marine snail." ...

...illion smokers, China has more cigarette consumers than any other country a smoking prevalence of 31 perc...icians surveyed were smokers, substantially higher than in the United States (3.3 percent), where the smoking prevalence in the general population is 20.9 p...

...s of well-conducted clinical trials. However, less than a third of the recommendations were found to be based on high-quality evidence applicable to the populations, treatments and outcomes specified in guideline recommendations. The researchers say that physicians should be aware that official guidelines...

(Date:7/21/2015)... , July 21, 2015 NXT-ID, Inc. (NASDAQ: ... biometric authentication company focused on the growing mobile ... wallet, announces that it has filed provisional patent ... Method. This invention highlights next ... authorizes an account, but also the user using ...